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by callalex 3y ago
My residential wired home internet in Silicon Valley has an unreasonable data cap that I hit every month, so I would not be able to use a service that also requires upload. (Which is very intentionally anticompetitive because they will happ
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by callalex 3y ago
People who are dealing with finding a new home are typically too busy and stressed to be dealing with things like fraud lawsuits with very small damage claims.
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by callalex 3y ago
This sounds like a repairability nightmare. The number of cracked screens you see on an average walk/bus ride is all you need to know that phone manufacturers are failing to consider and meet the needs of their users.
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by callalex 3y ago
I don’t understand why I become the exclusive property of a specific corporation through the simple act of using a phone (which is something I am required to do in the modern day).
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by callalex 3y ago
It’s not like the restraints we’re ever cleaning the menus everyone touches before…I like having control over my own hand hygiene just before eating.
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by callalex 3y ago
I’m proficient and confident in many languages because I like solving problems with computers. However in a high-stakes and low-tooling situation like a job interview I wouldn’t choose JavaScript any day of the week because of the uncertain
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by callalex 3y ago
If you’re paying list price at scale you are doing it very wrong.
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by callalex 3y ago
Every home in America should have a Heat Recovery Ventilator. They are extremely simple mechanically, yet because of their rarity they are still way to expensive to justify the cost instead of just opening a window. Policy could help a lot
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by callalex 3y ago
Everything was built in the 40’s-60’s and the average amount of insulation is 0. I live in the mildest part of CA, the San Francisco Bay Area. Today the overnight lows were in the mid 30’s and the high will be about 50. Without heating my i
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by callalex 3y ago
PG&E charges more like $.50 and it will soon be $.60-&.70. The regulator is corrupted and the infrastructure is failing because PG&E spent money that was supposed to be for infrastructure maintenance on share buyback programs. A
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by callalex 3y ago
> In a way this is the market doing what it's supposed to. There's a shortage of electricity because of everyone doing electrification upgrades, so the price of electricity rises PG&E electricity rates have absolutely nothi
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by callalex 3y ago
What does “camera access” mean in this context?
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by callalex 3y ago
Is it non-standard, or non-exactly-like-Chrome? There’s a difference.
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by callalex 3y ago
I wonder how long it will take them to morph into a financial services company.
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by callalex 3y ago
While I agree with you that Fortnite shouldn’t be considered a loss leader, the strategy behind challenging Apple in court is more nuanced. Epic also operates a rather large software/games store and I am sure they would love to see it
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by callalex 3y ago
Yes, and we are both specifically writing in a thread about Toyota battery vehicles.
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by callalex 3y ago
Preface: I am not familiar with Tesla, they tend to do their own thing. When my early-2000’s Prius battery died Toyota only offered a full swap out for $insane. However there were 4 different shops within cheap/free towing distance tha
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by callalex 3y ago
2003 was the last model year without lithium ion, and the years before that were nickel-cadmium, not lead-acid.
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by callalex 3y ago
> These can be some combination of clearing forest floors, probably revisiting construction guidelines for homes/businesses in these areas, and controlled burns in areas where that's required or necessary. But that’s communism!
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by callalex 3y ago
What is there to be convinced of? The loggers weren’t hiding their practices as they weren’t doing anything illegal. This is well documented and studied.
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by callalex 3y ago
I don’t see how that follows. Solar panels and batteries have become massively cheaper in the past few decades and that has all relied on new materials science. I guess you could argue that windmills could have been made cheaper at scale wi
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by callalex 3y ago
What’s wrong with simply displaying/linking to a list of supported countries?
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by callalex 3y ago
They also get to run the engine at a lower duty cycle while it is warming up, which is a big source of wear and tear for a gas engine. They also never have to run a rich mixture because the power gap is made up for by the electric motor.
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by callalex 3y ago
Preface: I drive a hybrid, and I have since 2002, before they were cool. The reason government incentives aren’t pushing hybrids now is that government policy is driven off of idealism instead of practicality. In the ideal world, a brand ne
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by callalex 3y ago
It sounds like your issue is actually with current sentencing guidelines, not mandatory labor then.
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by callalex 3y ago
Every Honda, even the cheap ones, do active noise cancelling in a whole car cabin. It’s definitely possible.
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by callalex 3y ago
Did they “lose their covers” or did tweakers steal all the copper? That’s a big problem in the US.
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by callalex 3y ago
Yet another reason it should be a crime to sell a phone with a non-removable battery.
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by callalex 3y ago
People are born not knowing anything. If you know something, it is your responsibility to share that knowledge. Remember that you were also born not knowing about the nature of subsidies and state granted infrastructure monopolies. There’s
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by callalex 3y ago
Castro Valley and Livermore are culturally “the south” of the Bay Area. You can find trucks with Trump flags and stuff.

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